Richard JamesCUMMING was born in Miltownpass, Co. Westmeath, circa 1860.2

His Dublin Metropolitan Police service record shows him enlisting in January 1880, aged 20, a labourer, Protestant, height 5' 9 1/2". He was promoted from '4th rate' to '3rd rate' in June 1881, but it appears he left the force shortly thereafter, certainly before another promotion may have been due in about 1883.3

The family resided at Brisbane, Queensland, in 1919, at the Fire Station, Vulture St where Richard James was the Asst Superintendent and Richard Frederick was a fireman.7

Richard died on 3 September 1920 at Vulture St in Brisbane, Queensland, of heart failure. The informant was his son Richard FrederickCUMMING.8,9,10 He was buried on 4 September 1920 at the Sth Brisbane Cemetery, 181 Annerley Rd, Dutton Park.8,11